I like writing about Windows 8. But every time I do — like right now, as I’ve been working on a post on Windows 8.1 — I’m bedeviled by the same conundrum. It’s minor but aggravating, and it confronts ...

Block by boring block.

Microsoft wants Windows developers to write Windows 8-specific, Metro-style, touch-friendly applications, and to make sure that they crank these apps out, the company ...

After over a decade of trying to stretch the Windows user interface to include mobile devices, Windows 8 promises to go the other way -- taking the Windows Phone interface and grafting it onto Windows ...

Jakob Nielsen says that Microsoft's new operating system is plagued by "hidden features [and] reduced discoverability," among other issues. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 Start screen UI wasn't shown off fully until mid-2011, but the company is now starting to show off mockups of how the software maker envisioned it back in 2010. Jensen Harris, ...

According to StatCounter, Windows 8 and 8.1 still account for about 4.3 percent of the Windows install base worldwide, far less than Windows 11, Windows 10, or even Windows 7. But for the people still ...